Congress

Ghulam Nabi Azad on three-day Jammu visit from Wednesday

11:25 pm November 12, 2019

Jammu: Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad will be on a three-day visit to the Jammu region from November 13, a senior party leader said on Tuesday. This will be his first visit to the region since the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was bifurcated into two Union territories on October 31. Azad, the […]

Maharashtra politics turning new page: Sena-NCP-Cong pact takes shape

No decision on supporting Sena yet: NCP, Congress

10:03 pm November 12, 2019

Mumbai: The Congress and NCP said on Tuesday evening that they had yet not taken any decision about supporting the Shiv Sena to form government in Maharashtra but will hold further discussions. At a joint press conference with Congress leaders, NCP president Sharad Pawar said the two parties will discuss and evolve a consensus on […]

Elections to 14 urban local bodies conclude in Karnataka

9:57 pm November 12, 2019

Bengaluru: Barring a few incidents of skirmishes involving BJP and Congress workers, elections to the 14 Urban Local Bodies in Kanataka were held peacefully on Tuesday, officials said. The local bodies that went to polls are two major municipal corporations of Mangaluru and Davangere and six city municipal councils, three town municipal councils and three […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

JMM Central Committee Secy Akeel Akhtar quits party

9:37 pm November 12, 2019

Pakur (Jharkhand): Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) Central Committee secretary Akeel Akhtar has quit from the primary membership of the party. In his resignation letter to JMM president, Shibu Soren on Monday, Akhtar, a former MLA said that “he was quitting from the party’s primary membership and also from the post of party’s central secretary.” A […]

Cong didn’t delay decision on supporting Sena: Chavan

4:26 pm November 12, 2019

Mumbai: Former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday rejected criticism that the Congress delayed its decision on supporting the Shiv Sena for government formation in the state. Asked whether the Congress has agreed to support the Shiv Sena to form government, Chavan said if that wasn’t so, his party would not have held prolonged […]